Cross-cultural validity of the food-related lifestyles instrument (FRL) within Western Europe

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Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-211

  Scholderer, Joachim ^a   Brunsø, Karen ^a   Bredahl, Lone ^a   Grunert, Klaus G ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross cultural validity; Food related lifestyle instrument; Structural equation modeling; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; COVARIANCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542358831     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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